When Sodl, the Mountain Valley Conference president, got the news on Wednesday that the Colonial League had invited Pleasant Valley to join its league, he was upset. Pleasant Valley has until April 9 to decide its future.

"We're not going to take a back seat to anybody," Sodl said. "To come take a school with a league in trouble, it was mean-spirited."

On Tuesday, the Colonial League invited two MVC schools — Lehighton and Pleasant Valley — to join its ranks. Lehighton was already set to leave the MVC after the 2013-14 school year.

But the invitation to Pleasant Valley was a right hook few could have foreseen. In fact, it was a cheap shot if you ask Sodl.

"The Colonial League knowing we have a six-team league, and to have an unsolicited invitation, it's inappropriate," Sodl said. "It's not appropriate at this time. They did it in a back door kind of way."

Tom Moll, the president of the Colonial League, said his conference schools were trying to be "proactive." The 12-team league wants to add two more schools, and Moll said they have a list of schools they will invite.

Lehighton and PV are at the top.

"I think you go if your future is uncertain," Moll said. "Lehighton is going and I don't think you have a league with six (schools). I think a school that doesn't have a future would entertain this. I don't know what they have on their table. I think this is a nervous time."

PV's superintendent Doug Arnold said the district received the invitation Wednesday and has until April 9 to make a decision.

Arnold said the district will consider the invitation.

"You have to give it due diligence," Arnold said.

If PV accepted, it would join in 2014-15.

The Colonial League made associate members Notre Dame of East Stroudsburg and Moravian Academy full-time members as well. But the Colonial League schools wanted larger schools in its conference — two schools that played football as well — so it could have two seven-team divisions.

Asked what the league's overall goal would be, Moll didn't have an answer.